James Fouché

Amateur years

Fouché starting road cycling in his youth. He won the Under 19 New Zealand national time trial championships in 2016^[6] after coming second in 2015.^[7]

WIGGINS/Team Wiggins Le Col 2018 to 2019

At the New Zealand National Road Race Championships in 2019, Fouché attacked with 40 km to go. The bunch behind could not work well together so his lead grew. He managed to hold them off to win the combined Under-23 and Elite titles.^[8][9] Fouché crashed out of the winning move in the Ronde van Vlaanderen U23.^[8]

From August 2019 he rode as a Stagaire for Mitchelton–Scott, experiencing racing at a higher level.^[10]

Black Spoke 2021 to 2023

2022 for Fouché started with the New Zealand national road championships. He didn't place in the Criterium but came fourth in the time trial. In the Road race Fouché attacked on the second lap going clear from the peloton, due to Cyclone Dovi the race length was shortened and the peloton was unable to catch Fouché resukling in him taking his second National Road race victory.^[11] In April he rode the Oceania Cycling Championships where he won the road race in the final sprint.^[12]

His Bolton Equities Black Spoke became a UCI ProTeam for the 2023 season allowing access to more races.^[13]

At the UCI ProSeries race the Tour of Britain Fouché was in the breakaway for four of the seven stages. In the process of doing so he gained the most points in the King of the Mountains classification to win the Black jersey overall.^[14][15]

Euskaltel–Euskadi 2024

Fouché was the final rider added to Euskaltel–Euskadi's roster for the 2024 season after signing a one-year contract.^[16][17] At the time of his signing, he was only the second non-Spanish rider to sign for the team since the team restarted in 2018.^[18]

MitoQ-NZ 2025

Fouché returned to New Zealand to sign for Continental team MitoQ–NZ Cycling Project for the 2025 season.